The latest and greatest release of the C++ Portable Components is available for download. This release brings major enchancements to all libraries. Highlights are the LocalDateTime class, the ServerApplication class with support for Windows services and Unix daemons, improvements to the FileChannel class, bugfixes and numerous other enchancements.
The changes in detail:
- bugfix: UUIDGenerator throws an exception if no connected ethernet adapter can
be found (and thus no MAC address can be obtained)
- added UUIDGenerator::createOne() method
- added error handling to UUID sample application
- added relational (==, !=, <, <=, >, >=) and arithmetic operators (+, -, +=, -=) to DateTime
- added LocalDateTime class
- added support for LocalDateTime to DateTimeParser and DateTimeFormatter
- added enqueueUrgentNotification() to NotificationQueue
- added support for timezone specifiers (%z, %Z) to PatternFormatter
- added [] operator and count() to StringTokenizer
- added elapsed() and isElapsed() to Timestamp
- added tzd() to Timezone
- added WinRegistryKey and WinService classes (Windows only)
- added index operator and count() to StringTokenizer
- added day/time-based log rotation (thanks to Alex Fabijanic), minor improvements to DateTimeParser
- support for Mac OS X 10.4/gcc 4.0.0
- added NamedMutex and NamedEvent
- added Process::kill()
- added NoPermissionException
- added Task and TaskManager classes
- added ServerApplication class
- bugfix: EventLogChannel - _logFile was not properly initialized in one constructor
- bugfix: File::createDirectories did not work for hierarchies deeper than three
- added Util::FilesystemConfiguration
- documented logging policy: log() must open channel if it hasn't been opened yet
- FileChannel::log() opens channel if necessary
- the application reference passed to initialize() and reinitialize() is no longer const
- improved application logging initialization
- fixed a problem with configuration view and property placeholders
- fixed Util build configuration for Visual Studio
- improved application samples
- fixed documentation for Semaphore class